HCB, Winogrand and Nan Golding used leica M Who else?

Alexsander Rodchenko, Ilya Ehrenburg, Tony Ray-Jones, Martine Franck, Susan Meiselas, Inge Morath, Stuart Franklin I believe, .........
 
haroldjr33 said:
Robert Capa, Cornell Capa, Alfled Eisenstaedt, Most of the Life magazine photographers.

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Capa used Contax and Rolleiflex. Ara Güler used Ms all the time. And the old Nazi bitch Leni Riefenstahl used Leica exclusively. But that is of course something the Leica marketing does not want to talk about. ;)

bertram
 
Eva Besnyö (Budapest 1910-Laren(NL)2003) most famous for her early
1930-ies photo's of Berlin and other street photography.
and Prince Bernhard of the Netherlands, one of the better known amateur photographers.
 
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Bertram2 said:
Capa used Contax and Rolleiflex.
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Not quite true either, I´ve seen photos of him wearing Leicas and Super Ikontas.
But no M though, that´s true.
 
3js said:
Not quite true either, I´ve seen photos of him wearing Leicas and Super Ikontas.
But no M though, that´s true.
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In the early 30's, Capa used a Leica IIIa. Sometime after the Spanish Civil War he switched to Contax II's, and after WWII he used Contax IIa's and a Nikon S. He died in May 1954, less than a year after the M3 came out, and he didn't use them.

Yeah, he used Rolleiflexes and others, but notice he used 35mm on Omaha Beach and elsewhere when under fire...much lighter, faster lenses, and longer rolls of film. You also don't have to stick your head up as high in a firefight to shoot an eyelevel finder as a waistlevel finder, which you basically have to stand (or sit) up for.
 
Leica presented Eisenstaedt with the 1,000,000 sn M3 ifor his contributions to PJ. He was credited as being the father of modern photo journalism.
 
Bobbo said:
You also don't have to stick your head up as high in a firefight to shoot an eyelevel finder as a waistlevel finder, which you basically have to stand (or sit) up for.
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Or you could hold the TLR upside down above your head. Thsi would have been advantageous for wartime photography.
 
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How could you guys forget David Alan Harvey? Also, Larry Towell. Both Magnum, and excellent.

Cheers,

Craig
 
I can't believe these guys haven't been listed, but I am honored to submit thier names for your consideraton: Eugene Richards (still actively shooting) Robert Klein, Josef Koudleka, and W. Eugene Smith.
 
John Rountree said:
I can't believe these guys haven't been listed, but I am honored to submit thier names for your consideraton: Eugene Richards (still actively shooting) Robert Klein, Josef Koudleka, and W. Eugene Smith.
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It's my understanding that Eugene Richards does not use a Leica or even a rangefinder for that matter. He's been known to shoot with an Olympus SLR.
 
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